Stacia is a native to the Rochester area and has been working as a pediatric speech pathologist since 2001. She has practiced primarily as a home-based therapist  (Early Intervention/preschool) and in the outpatient setting, recently moving from Step by Step Pediatric Therapy Center to her private practice, Help with Feeding, in 2022. Stacia loves working directly with families, empowering them to support changes in feeding routines and meeting overall family wellness goals. She also loves teaching at local colleges, daycare centers, and to other providers. Sharing her knowledge and clinical experience with parents and colleagues is her passion.

Stacia has developed an expertise in supporting feeding development in the first two years of life as well as integrating principles of infant mental health practice into her work with families and other colleagues. She also enjoys mentoring other SLPs and OTs interested in pediatric feeding.

Stacia is a wife and mother of two boys, ages 18 and 16, as well as a sweet little dog, Rosie. She enjoys reading/learning, yoga, and spending time with friends when she is not at work following her passions there.

Kristin has been working as a pediatric speech-language pathologist (SLP) in the Rochester area since 2004 servicing primarily children in Early Intervention and Preschool. She has previously worked as an itinerant SLP at Clinical Associates of the Finger Lakes as well as Step By Step Pediatric Therapy Center as well as served as the Clinic Director of the Speech and Language Clinic at Nazareth University  (formerly Nazareth College), prior to opening her private practice, Canalside Speech in 2021. Kristin enjoys interfacing directly with clients and their families to help guide them and support them along their communication journey. She has a passion for working directly with families using a parent coaching model  to help make communication easier during everyday interactions. Kristin throughly enjoys learning from other professionals and families that she has worked with as well as sharing her knowledge and expertise with other professionals/colleagues, students and the greater community.

Kristin has specialized in working with children who are deaf/hard of hearing and their families using a variety of communication modalities. Her areas of interest include early intervention/preschool, building speech/language through parent coaching, speech sound disorders,  and childhood apraxia of speech. Kristin has been engaged in trainings for infant mental health as well as reflective supervision to build her knowledge and skills when working directly with families. She also is the co-chair of the advisory board for Best Buddies of Western NY and sits on the board of Hands and Voices of NY as well as the professional advisory board for Rochester Hearing and Speech Center.

Personally. Kristin enjoys spending time with her husband, Steve and two children, Christopher and Madelyn as well as reading, running/excercising, enjoying time with friends, and traveling to the beach! 

Sonya has devoted her career to working with children in a wide variety of settings to include the neonatal intensive care unit, early intervention home setting, schools, hospital rehabilitation centers, and outpatient clinics. With a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Buffalo in 2010, she then went on to become a Board-Certified Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy in 2022 through the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

Sonya founded Muddy Sneakers Physical Therapy in Victor, NY. She believes in creating a welcoming space to allow children to optimize their physical independence, and a space where each milestone is a child's journey is celebrated; however large or small.

Outside of the clinic setting, Sonya enjoys running, camping, and spending time with her husband and three young children – Adelyn, Lexi, and Beckham. In 2017, she became co-founder of Inclusion In Motion where she has been working with a small team to design and build the first isUD certified playground in the United States.